Mario Christodoulou

The inside story of how the Commonwealth Bank went to extraordinary lengths to discredit whistleblowers and journalists who exposed wrongdoing within the company.

An ABC investigation has uncovered hundreds of cases of misconduct by health workers, including a psychiatrist who impregnated a patient and another who injected their patient with heroin, yet the medical regulator has allowed them to practise. 

In an email to the recruitment agency, Stephen Cartwright claimed the NSW treasurer and deputy premier at the time were directly involved in negotiating his remuneration.

Leaked emails show former NSW ministers Pru Goward and Jodi McKay were given last-minute interviews for senior trade roles, despite there already being preferred candidates.

In the post-COVID era of online assessments, “homework help” sites have been accused of becoming industrialised cheating factories — and it's making them rich.

For four months, I've been investigating Australia's vast collection of South-East Asian antiquities, and what I've found is alarming: a story of dodgy dealers, looted temples, and some of the world's most exclusive collections, writes Mario Christodoulou.

New evidence uncovered by the ABC has linked Thai and Cambodian art works sold in Australia back to looted historic sites and a shady Bangkok dealer. 

Zhenya and Vera Kasevich, who led the congregations of Hillsong Kyiv and Moscow, accuse Brian Houston and Hillsong's general manager of sending threatening emails during a dispute over the transfer of their church and its assets to Hillsong Australia.

Bank workers believed their meetings with ASIC were secret, but information was being passed on to ANZ in their lawyers' invoices.

Local character Peter "Pierre" Gawronski could be evicted today. He is one of many people in social housing in NSW who are facing eviction if they don't pay up rental arrears.

With travel restrictions in place around the world, Alana has been fearful that if she left the country where her children are, she would not be able to travel back.

Consulting firm McKinsey advised the US pharmaceutical giant behind OxyContin, a powerful opioid drug. A leader of the Australian arm now says he hopes the firm would not do the same thing again.

Prosecutors say this man was responsible for a vast criminal enterprise. He transferred nearly $100 million through Australia. So who helped him do it?

Money remitters from Australia, featured in a worldwide leak of US government documents, were depositing bags of cash at Australian banks as part of an $80 million laundering scheme.

Opening hundreds, or even thousands, of companies is perfectly legal. But what happens if those companies are used in arms deals or by criminal syndicates?

A former high paid ANZ executive has launched an unfair dismissal case against the bank, accusing his former employer of punishing him for making complaints about the alleged manipulation of interest rates.

A threat assessment written by ASIO and seen by the ABC says COVID-19 restrictions are being exploited by far-right extremists to push their narrative.

Tristan Naudi was locked in a metal box in the back of a police van before dying, handcuffed and bleeding, in a NSW hospital. Background Briefing has learned 175 vehicles are fitted with similar enclosures.

Australia's top universities could be aiding the Chinese Communist Party's mission to develop mass surveillance and military technologies, amid rising concerns from Australian intelligence agencies that they are putting national security at risk.

The peak Chinese Students and Scholars Association promotes itself as an autonomous group under the guidance of the Chinese embassy, but its founding documents reveal its true ties.

A complaint, sent by a senior director at an investment bank, alleges two executives "manhandled" a female financial analyst, badgering her for her hotel room number.

Porsches and $5 million bonuses, drinking and late-night visits to strip clubs — we go deep into one of Australia's biggest-ever corporate investigations.

A decade after Kevin Rudd was ousted as Prime Minister over his failed emissions trading scheme, Australia is still without a clear policy and it is discouraging investment.

Fay Sherret was killed by a slow-growing bacteria that entered her body as she had a routine heart valve replacement procedure. A cooler in the operating theatre was infected and the deadly bacteria was airborne. Now, her daughter is working to uncover what authorities knew about the risks.

An ABC News investigation into breast implant-related cancer exposes serious flaws in the way the Therapeutic Goods Administration detected an emerging problem with textured breast implants.